Word: clingingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these words, more clearly than any French politician to date, France's President announced his nation's determination to cling to rebellious Algeria. It was phrased as a warning to Algerian nationalists, and France's allies abroad, but it was an appeal to dissident Frenchmen-including such leading intellectuals as Sorbonne Professor Raymond Aron (TIME, July 1), Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Europeanist Andre Philip-who have grown tired of the expensive hopelessness of the struggle in Algeria...
Congratulations on finally admitting the logic of the Southern argument against the Nine Sociologists, even though you still shove aside logic to cling to your legal unrealism on the [race] mixing decision...
...want to be taken for a San Franciscan," advises a new San Francisco guidebook, "dress conservatively, cling to the outside of cable cars, and make bad jokes about Los Angeles." Though Guidebook Author Herb Caen does not mention it, another sure sign of the Compleat San Franciscan is his addiction to the San Francisco Examiner's Columnist Herb Caen...
Static-Free Synthetics. Two new processes to eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
Bundy also pointed out briefly several more problems which the College must face. The tendency of most people to cling to traditional forms of education, the shortage of teachers, largely because of their low pay scale, the need for evaluation and possibly reevaluation of the relative importance of various fields of learning in the University, and the role of Harvard as the educational leader of the United States all pose major problems for the University in the coming years...